Southerner move 'up north'?
#31
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Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I was born and raised just outside Ilkley and had all our children there. Beautiful place and on a sunny day - breathtaking Why oh why did we leave! We will find a way home!!
#32
Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
include Upper Swaledale in the drive (Keld), and a pint at Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in England (and get out of the car and walk over from the pub to Nine Standards Rigg)
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Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I am a southerner but went to Leeds University. Northerners tend to say southerners are not friendly but I think that's overstated. My husband's Geordie family are very wary of outsiders (ie anyone outside their city limits).
#34
Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I don't know if southerners are friendly because I've never lived there, but here in North Yorkshire, the friendliness and kindness of strangers is a daily joy. After living in the New York suburbs where I didn't know any neighbors, we've moved to the exact opposite. Everyone is friendly, everyone has a laugh and a joke all the time, nothing is too much trouble for people. I have chatted more to my neighbors in 6 weeks than I talked to anyone in my street in 13 years. I LOVE it here!
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Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I don't know if southerners are friendly because I've never lived there, but here in North Yorkshire, the friendliness and kindness of strangers is a daily joy. After living in the New York suburbs where I didn't know any neighbors, we've moved to the exact opposite. Everyone is friendly, everyone has a laugh and a joke all the time, nothing is too much trouble for people. I have chatted more to my neighbors in 6 weeks than I talked to anyone in my street in 13 years. I LOVE it here!
Now I am thinking I should be moving to Yorkshire. Sound great. Glad you are happy to be home.
#36
Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
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I did a masters degree at Leeds Uni (dim and distant past) - being a decent Sussex chap, I hadn't wandered further north than the rugged frontier of Oxford before that - I was quite taken aback by the first shopkeeper calling me "love" as in "aaalright love". I thought he was taking the piss out of my burnished southern accent and hinting at me being a poofter, but it did appear to me a normal way for males to interact.
Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
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Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I did a masters degree at Leeds Uni (dim and distant past) - being a decent Sussex chap, I hadn't wandered further north than the rugged frontier of Oxford before that - I was quite taken aback by the first shopkeeper calling me "love" as in "aaalright love". I thought he was taking the piss out of my burnished southern accent and hinting at me being a poofter, but it did appear to me a normal way for males to interact.
Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
And don't forget the official Yorkshireman's motto (translation provided on request):
'Ear all, see all, say nowt; Sup all, eyt all, pay nowt; And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt - Do it fer thissen"
Like I said on another thread, many think that a Yorkshireman is nothing more than a Scotsman with all of the generosity squeezed out of him. I would like to think that we are just "careful".
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#39
Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I absolutely love being called 'love' again in every shop and by every delivery man, but I know it really puts some outsiders off because I've had friends from the south get upset about it. I just think it's a lovely warm way of living. Younger people do it less than older ones though, so I think it's slowly dying out.
One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.
One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.
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Re: Southerner move 'up north'?
I absolutely love being called 'love' again in every shop and by every delivery man, but I know it really puts some outsiders off because I've had friends from the south get upset about it. I just think it's a lovely warm way of living. Younger people do it less than older ones though, so I think it's slowly dying out.
One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.
One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.